Dear Editor,
After fifteen months in office, Guyanese in the diaspora who helped the APNU+AFC be elected to office are today frustrated and disappointed by the manner in which they are being treated by the Government of Guyana.
Dear Editor,
The recent advertisement by the Ministry of Communities inviting developers to submit expressions of interest for affordable housing demands pause for thought.
Dear Editor,
In 2011 former Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang in his ruling on the Angela Haniff v GCB application for an injunction stated that the government through its Ministry/Minister of Sport should install an Interim Management Committee (IMC) as a short-term measure, and legislation as the long-term remedy for the escalating cricket crisis.
Dear Editor,
Since the PPP/C demitted office, the present regime has conducted several forensic audits, using firms and individuals that have expressed political opposition to the PPP/C, and even hostility.
Earlier this week the Syrian pro-democracy and media activist Rami Jarrah used the word “holocaust” to describe the carnage underway in parts of Syria.
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published on September 28 in the Stabroek News under the caption ‘Family say being kept in the dark on probe of Sheriff Street fatal accident’.
Dear Editor,
I write in relation to the Universal Peace Federation’s Musical Festival of Peace and Ice Breaking Ceremony, which was held on Saturday, September, 24 at City Hall in Georgetown.
Dear Editor,
Minister Bulkan’s statement about the Town Clerk’s action in cleaning Robb Street, removing the vendors and executing what was lawful in clearing blocked passages and entrances to legitimate businesses and the filth that had accumulated because of the vendors operating there, was unfortunate and disrespectful to the Town Clerk.
Dear Editor,
As in almost every former colonial territory with the English common law and a corresponding Westminster system legislature, Guyana has experienced severe challenges in terms of the guaranteed rights of the people.
Dear Editor,
The US Embassy in Guyana on its official social media page, shared a vintage photograph of the late Dr Cheddi Jagan engaging with President John Kennedy during his visit to New York when he was Premier in 1961.
Trafficking in persons (TIP), or human trafficking, is a relatively new term in everyday parlance in Guyana, and while it has gained tremendous recognition in usage over the past few years, many persons still fail to come to grips with the fact that some activities that might have been considered immoral but not necessarily illegal, now fall within the definition of human trafficking and attract harsh legal consequences.
Dear Editor,
The SN editorial of 26 September 2016 `Juice contract and transparency’ is a barefaced attempt at historical revisionism, seeking to excuse the obvious and blatant APNU+AFC corruption involved in the award of the fruit juice contract to a foreign company which was not the lowest bidder (and the still fresh scandal involving single sourcing of an unfinished building to serve as a drug bond) by seeking to misrepresent the PPP/C’s record in office in relation to procurement and using this misrepresentation as a smokescreen.